Small update on winter work.
If anyone has viewed Rsmat’s thread you will have seen he kindly sold me the Turbo Technics front tie bar set up.
These are extremely rare and allow the RS 1600i adjustable castor set up but retaining the S2 gearbox cradle. After speaking with Turbo Technics last week the only part they designed was the cast aluminium cross member the rest were standard (RS 1600i) Ford parts. These were offered as a handling pack and were £620 in 1990 around £1500 today.
Having experienced the difference when my son machined the tie bars on his Fiesta to increase the castor I was always keen to do the same to my Escort and did think about modifying the anti roll bar to achieve this. I think Simon at Sitech done this with his S2.
Anyway the bars are over 30 years old so needed a clean up before fitting to my car.


As it arrived from Rsmat

My original set up

I purchased adjustable TCA’s from compbrake to sort out the excessive camber but repainted them in satin to match everything else.

This is how the towing eye is attached on a RS 1600i but on the TT cross member it wouldn’t line up with the cut out on the bumper. Now in 29 years of ownership I’ve never needed the front towing eye but if I don’t have one you can be sure I’ll need it.

I cut the eye from this.

Not strong enough.

Made a bracket

And today started painting.

Roll bar being painted.

The worst copy ever but what was available in 1990